...and lead the other seven teams into the quarter-finals this afternoon. Here is the update from the Swedish Match Tour site, as of 15:30 in Malaysia (08:30 Central Europe Time) Friday:

The quarterfinal pairings at the Monsoon Cup, the 50th event of the Swedish Match Tour, are set.

Chris Dickson won the round robin with a 9-2 record, followed by Magnus Holmberg, 8-3, Dean Barker, 8-3, Russell Coutts, 7-4, Ian Williams, 7-4, Peter Gilmour, 6-5, Staffan Lindberg, 6-5, and Bjorn Hansen, 5-6.

The pairings in the top half of the quarterfinals are Dickson versus Hansen and Coutts versus Williams. In the bottom half Holmberg faces Lindberg and Barker races Gilmour.

Each match is first to 3 points. The winners advance to the semifinals and the losers are eliminated.

A nice wind around 12 knots is blowing from the north/northwest.


Chris Dickson (right) and Ian Williams rub gunwales during their Flight
8 match, won by Dickson. (©Swedish Match Tour/Guido Cantini)


Stay tuned to our main team website for details, and to the Swedish Match Tour website. And at the SMT site, sooner or later today they say there will be a live webcast from the Monsoon Cup (go to SMT site, be sure your browser is not blocking pop-ups, then click on the TV screen in the left sidebar).